From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from va3outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com (va3ehsobe010.messaging.microsoft.com [216.32.180.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.global.frontbridge.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7F552C008C for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 06:38:43 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:38:27 -0500 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: enable the relocatable support for the fsl booke 32bit kernel To: Kevin Hao References: <20130702032447.GA26391@pek-khao-d1.corp.ad.wrs.com> <1372804758.8183.124@snotra> <20130703030044.GA25190@pek-khao-d1.corp.ad.wrs.com> In-Reply-To: <20130703030044.GA25190@pek-khao-d1.corp.ad.wrs.com> (from haokexin@gmail.com on Tue Jul 2 22:00:44 2013) Message-ID: <1372883907.8183.151@snotra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; delsp=Yes; format=Flowed Cc: linuxppc List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 07/02/2013 10:00:44 PM, Kevin Hao wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:39:18PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > > How much overhead (space and time) is this really? >=20 > The following is the additional sections when relocatable is enabled =20 > for > a p2020rdb board. > section size > .dynsym 000007f0 > .dynstr 00000926 > .dynamic 00000080 > .hash 00000388 > .interp 00000011 > .rela.dyn 00215250 >=20 > The time for the relocation is about 32ms on a p2020rdb board. Hmm... more relocations than I expected. What percentage is this of =20 the total image size? -Scott=